Dora Hegyi - Portfolio 2023

DORA HEGYI

Urban planner, landscape architect

curriculum vitae

INFO

Dóra Hegyi

Urban planner & Landscape architect

NATIONALITY

Hungarian

CURRENT ADDRESS

Elberfelder Strasse 38

10555 Berlin

Germany PHONE 0176 5696 5322

Dóra Hegyi

E-MAIL

hegyidora94@gmail.com

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Dear Reader,

In the following pages I am introducing you a selection of my professional and academic works. You will find a diverse range of projects showcasing my design and planning skills through various scales, locations and topics, developed individually or as member of a team. Enjoy and please feel free to contact me with any further question!

Climate change planning

Water Sensitive Cities

Digital transformation

Interdisciplinary communication

Graphic visualisation

SKILLS

LANGUAGE

English Hungarian German SOFTWARE

MS Office

QGIS

ArcGIS

Photoshop

InDesign Illustrator

3D Studio Max

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Premiere Pro

REFERENCES

Prof. Jochen Rabe

Managing Director - KWB

Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin

Professor of Urban Resilience and Digitalisation - Einstein Center Digital Future

jochen.rabe@kompetenz-wasser.de

Prof. Andrea Cominola

Assistant Professor of Smart Water Networks, Technische Universität Berlin and Einstein Center Digital Future

andrea.cominola@tu-berlin.de

WORK EXPERIENCE

2020 OCTOBER -

ide3a project, Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Research assistant and ide3a ambassador

Research areas

o Cross-scale policy analysis in the following fields: digitalisation, Nature-Based Solutions, climate change, sustainability transitions within the context of the European Union

Development of a serious game called ‚ConnectiCity’

o Development of a simulator informed educational game highlighting the interconnections and cascading effects between different urban infrasructure sectors (e.g. water, mobility, energy) under various climate scenarios (e.g. urban flooding)

Interdisciplinary education and science communication

o Editor and interviewer of the ide3a podcast ‚Critical Infrastructure and Digitalisation’

o Organisation of various hackathons and workshops (topics: smart sensing, smart cities, digital water, simulation of green-blue infrastructures)

2020 JANUARY - 2020 JULY

United Nations Human Settlement Programme (Nairobi, Kenya)

Urban planning & Climate change intern

2018 SEPTEMBER - 2019 OCTOBER

TU Delft Green Office (Sustainability Department of TU Delft)

Events & Communication coordinator Development of the proposal for TU Delft’s Executive Board on ‚How to organize sustainability on campus?’

2016 SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER

BFVT (Budapest Capital Urbanism Ltd.)

Intern, worked on the new Design Guideline for the Danube riverbank

2014-2015

Szabolcs Megyeri Garden and Landscape Engineer

Urban Gardening Coordinator, responsible for event coordination

EDUCATION

2017-2019

Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands, Delft)

MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Buildings Sciences (Urbanism track)

Graduated with honourable mention (grade: 9.0 out of 10) and obtained the ‚Technology in Sustainable Development’ annotation

2016 SUMMER SEMESTER

Technical University of Munich (Germany, Munich)

Landscape architecture and Landscape planning - Erasmus+ programme

2013-2016

Szent István University (Hungary, Budapest)

Landscape Architecture BSc, Urban Design & Planning Specialization (grade: 4.75 out of 5.00)

2005-2013

Kempelen Farkas High School (Hungary, Budapest)

VOLUNTARY POSITIONS

2022City Space Architecture

Junior Advisor on Public Space

2021-

VALYO (‚City and River’ Initiative for an accessible Danube) - Budapest, Hungary Translator (English-Hungarian)

2017-2019

Atlantis Magazine (for Urbanism and Landscape Architecture) - TU Delft Editor

COMPETITIONS

2022

Peter-Joseph-Lenné-Preis - Berlin, Germany

Task C - More Green for Hungary’s Capital – Terebesi Park Forest

2020

‚Design for Living’ Idea Competition - Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Work featured in book collecting best projects (Actar Publishers)

2020

Kaira Looro International Architecture Competition

Design of an Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to solve humanitarian emergencies in Africa

2018

Urban Greenhouse Challenge - Wageningen University & Research

Member of Team Gaia, finalist team

CONFERENCES

2022

European Urban Research Association (EURA) conference - Milan, Italy

Defrag-Europe: fragility/antifragility at play in contemporary Europe

IEEE European Technology & Engineering Management Summit - online Building bridges towards responsible Smart Cities

2019

African Perspectives Conference, Urbanism Students for Africa Initiative - TU Delft

PUBLICATIONS

2020

Contributor - “Urban Sector Operational Plan and Sector Guidelines. Deliverable 3”

R. Kehew, M.Cohen, M. Cook / GCF & UN-Habitat

2019

Co-author - Executive proposal ‚How to organize sustainability on campus?’

D. Hegyi, F. de Waal, R. van den Brink, S. Janakiraman /TU Delft Green Office, TU Delft Executive Board

2016

Contributor - Duna Design Manual (DDM)

U. Albrecht, I. András, M. Fonyódi, A. Losonczy / BFVT, The Municipality of Budapest

2017

Contributor - Budapest public spaces of primary importance

U. Albrecht, I. András, M. Fonyódi, A. Losonczy / BFVT, The Municipality of Budapest

Satisfying Urban Thirst

/ Towards a water sensitive and inclusive urban ecosystem through the metabolism of Cape Town

Water Sensitive Urban Design // Urban Metabolism// Climate change planning

In 2018 Cape Town faced the threat of becoming the first city in modern age to run out of drinking water. Water scarcity caused by climate chance and population growth is further complicated by high levels of inequity and poor water quality in the city’s townships, where the legacy of apartheid is still present in forms of social and spatial segregation. In my thesis I seek to explore and develop spatial strategies that can foster the transition towards a water sensitive Cape Town, while providing inhabitants with equal access to water services and amenities.

Individual work

Cape Town, South Africa

9 months (2018-2019)

Multiscalar

(From neighbourhood scale design to metropolitan strategy)

Khayelitsha Wetlands Park

Master’s thesis

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

A principle catalog has been developed to showcase distinct elements of the spatial strategies that can be combined with each other and implemented in other locations.

INTERVENTION ZONES

Three meso scale intervention zones have been identified based on spatial mapping of water resource flows, Water Mass Balance analysis and complementary qualitative research.

Each project area lies within different catchments and are named after the watercourse which flows through them. While water plays a major role in all the three meso scale design, each location - based on their different characteristics - has an additional focus on one of the three components of the water-food-energy nexus.

The fourth micro scale design (IY - Imizamo Yethu) showcases detailed water sensitive design solutions and elaborates on technical aspects.

DESIGN

The main purpose of the Imizamo Yethu project is to test and showcase design principles for waterside residential development projects in townships which adopt Water Sensitive Urban Design and Sustainable Drainage System measures to create more resilient neigbourhoods. The design focuses on stormwater harvesting solutions on both household and community scales.

The Urban Leaf

/ A new landmark for the city of Amsterdam

Circular economy // Urban food production // Urban regeneration

Our multidisciplinary team with members from various universities across the Netherlands was challenged to integrate urban food production in one of the former Bijlmerbajes prison towers in Amsterdam. With our design, our goal was to transform a former jailhouse, once the symbol of isolation into a landmark building, a place that represents the future and builds a sense of community in this neighbourhood.

Urban Greenhouse Challenge (Wageningen University & Research)

Team work (10)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10 months (2017-2018)

Building scale

We used the Bijlmerbajes’ unique character in order to create a mixture of first seemingly contradictory qualities and functions: past meets future, concrete and steel meet nature.

The greenhouse system entails a variety of high-tech food production techniques. Keeping in mind the characteristics and limitations of the existing building structure, we envisioned different techniques in the construction from soilbased crop production on the ground floor to aqua- and aeroponics on the upper floors.

PROGRAM

We imagined the tower as a combination of a wellness centre and a greenhouse, embedded in the future Bajes Kwartier, the ‚neighbourhood of tomorrow’. Our main intention was to create a strong public character, a place which locals can not only visit, but actively use and enjoy. This goal is also reflected in our design: floors are connected visually and functionally to altogether form a circular system, the backbone of the tower.

LANDMARK & ENERGY EFFICIENCY

A solar chimney is implemented on the southwestern and south-eastern facades. This structure provides natural ventilation for our greenhouse by means of solar energy. It showcases the use of a passive heating & cooling system adapted to an already existing building. In addition, it also serves an aesthetic function as its organic treelike form symbolizes the revival and repurposing of the former prison tower.

Dynamic Delft

/ ‚All is (f)lux’

Walkability // Bike friendly // Transit oriented development // Sustainable urban lighting // Safety

The city of Delft is plagued by large east-west barriers (railway, canal) that effectively block social and economic exchanges. Besides, the pressing housing demand requires the construction of 5000 new homes in the southern neighbourhoods of the city.

To tackle these issues, this project explores the possibilities of densification in line with transit-oriented development. Additionally, the design emphasizes the development of high quality, safe and connected green spaces to provide recreational areas for the locals and green corridors for various animal species.

Individual work

Delft, The Netherlands

3 months (2017-2018)

Neighbourhood scale

Smart lighting simulation: http://gph.is/2nl5xTH

Academic studio project

In order to solve the issue of the numerous northsouth barriers, the plan proposes the development and expansion of the already existing road network in east-west direction. The design primarily focuses on the development of bicycle and pedestrian mobility. The centre of this renewed network is the new train station with the proposed high-density mixed-use area, the Kabel District.

Chopinlaan

Herman Gorterhof

Forest for Us

/ More Green for Hungary’s Capital Park forest // Homelessness // Minimum disturbance // Green corridor // Accessibility

‚Forest for us’ aims to create a park with minimal disturbance. The main component of the design is the pathway, which guides us through the Terebes Forest. It can be envisioned as a thread, that is used to string the beads - different park functions - together.

A plan is proposed that respects and builds upon existing conditions, rather than trying to sweep out the current social and ecological patterns and design from scratch.

On the western side of the design area, this pathway’s main goal is to create functions, which can bring together and serve all park users, both visitors and inhabitants. On the eastern side, space is entirely passed on to nature: the pathway’s function here is to enable ‚human’ park users to observe ecological succession without disturbing the local flora and fauna.

Competition (Lenné Preis)

Individual work

Budapest, Hungary

1 week sprint (2022)

Neighbourhood scale

Beads on a string

From connect to educate

From social to ecological

Conceptual plan

a-a’

b-b’ c-c’

planting plan

The proposed multi-purpose square at the eastern entrance of Terebesi can host different functions, such as a market. The neighbouring community garden’s parcels can be rented by locals, whereas some of them are reserved for the informal inhabitants of Terebesi who can grow fruit and vegetables in dedicated parcels rent free (and potentially sell their harvest at the market). This way, the proposal attempts to integrate and involve all relevant social groups and their potential needs in the planning process.

The planting plan around the square suggests a variety of indigenous species that evoke the feeling of standing at the fringe of a forest. It consists of different groundcover plants (e.g. Ajuga reptans), perennials (e.g. Pulmonaria officinalis) and shrubs (e.g. Cornus mas) which naturally grow in similar, shaded environments.

Duna Design Manual

/ Design Guideline for the Danube riverbank in Budapest

Accessible riverbank // Urban waterfront regeneration // Reconnecting with water

The Danube river flowing through Budapest is one of the most distinctive landmarks of Hungary’s capital. However, similarly to many other modern cities, with the emergence of infrastructural elements and hard engineering approaches (roads, canalization of rivers), water has been disconnected from the inhabitants. The main goal of the Duna Design Manual is to propose a new approach to the planning and design of our riverbanks and promote reconnection with water. The project classifies different sections of the riverbank based on their location and characteristics. For each section, a set of guiding principles have been developed along with a proposed spatial design for specific intervention zones.

Professional project (Internship)

Team work (14)

Budapest, Hungary

3 months (2016)

City scale

B1 Buda - Northern outer zone

B2 Buda - Northern transition zone

B3 Buda - Inner zone

B4 Buda - Southern transition zone

B5 Buda - Southern outer zone

P1 Pest - Northern transition zone

P2 Pest - Inner zone

P3 Pest - Southern transition zone I Island zone

Accesible waterfront, walkability, continuous bike paths and high quality green surfaces were common goals of each proposed design, while we were also taking intro consideration unique attributes of the intervention sites.

The Activator

/ Space you activate. Space that activates you. Data driven public space // Community activation // Smart city // Movement pattern

In spite of increasing urban densities and opportunities of digital connectivity, the urbanite’s loneliness remains one of the most prevalent issues of developed societies. Social isolation have various adverse implications on our mental and physical health.

The Activator project understands the community as a socio-spatial unit organized both virtually and physically around a data driven public space. In this alternative Budapest, the square takes on the mission to make our life feel more local while enhancing our physical and social activity. It functions as a dynamic system, where your behaviour, your movement pattern defines the space and its features. A space you activate and a space that activates you.

8th Advanced Architecture Contest (IAAC Barcelona)

Individual Budapest, Hungary

2 months (2020)

Neighbourhood scale

Concept video: https://bit.ly/39lVMw2

Elements of an Activator square Operation & information flows

With the spread of Activator communities, new possibilities could open up to activate the people of Budapest. Communities could compete with each other to win the most active neighborhood title and further strenghten a sense of belonging.

Seeing how the actions of one person or one community add up to city level impacts could also teach us to see the bigger picture and show us the power of bottom up changes.

The Kambu Project

/ For the resolution of humanitarian emergencies in Africa

EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) // Emergency architecture // Vernacular architecture

With this architectural model, our goal was to inspire a new generation of emergency architecture by envisioning a fluid structure, capable of taking various forms according to what the emergency and context requires. Our proposed EOC is a light-weight structure, consisting of modules, which can be easily assembled in 72 hours. It also creates the possibility for local people to participate in the construction process in order to gain greater identification with their location and reconnect with craftsmanship. Due to its elevated floor and tightly braced roof structure, the EOC becomes resilient to flooding and heavy winds.

With time, the primary ‚Response-EOC’ structure can transform into the ‚Recovery-EOC’. The main consideration behind this is to keep the EOC structurally temporary – easily dismantled and reusable –, while mitigating the sense of temporality by providing quality spaces and a feeling of intimacy.

Team (3)

Sub-Saharan Africa

2 months (2020)

Building scale

Kaira Looro Architecture Competition

ASSISTANCE UNIT (255.25 m2)

1 Security back office (12.5 m2)

2 Reception and ID (19.75 m2)

3 Health check (17.75 m2)

4 General treatment rooms (50 m2)

5 Women only treatment (37.5 m2)

6 Back office (12.5 m2)

7 Infectious patients’ treatment (25 m2)

8 Psychological support and training (17.75 m2)

9 Psychological support room (17.75 m2)

10 Counselling room (19.75 m2)

11 Female and male washrooms with handwashing stations (25 m2)

MANAGEMENT UNIT (150 m2)

12 Staff washroom (12.5 m2)

13 Kitchen (12.5 m2)

14 Communication/briefing room (25 m2)

15 Emergency operations room (37.5 m2)

16 NGO office (25 m2)

17 Office (25 m2)

18 Office (12.5 m2)

LOGISTICS UNIT (75 m2)

19 Non-food items and building materials storage (25 m2)

20 Food storage (25 m2)

21 Educational materials storage (12.5 m2)

22 Medical storage (12.5 m2)

OPEN SPACES

A Waiting area with handwashing stations

B ‚Breathing Space’ for staff

C Playground and tower garden

D Herb and vegetable garden

AMA, The Food Connoisseur

/ Creating a highly efficient circular foodscape built on global-local synergies

Circular economy // Urban Metabolism // Urban food production // Peri-urban area

The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA) - supported by its ports and food processing industries - is one of the key players in helping the Netherlands to be the world’s second largest food exporter. However, due to trends such as population growth and the shrinkage of available land, there is an urgent need to change existing practices of the food sector and develop the region’s economy in a more circular manner. Therefore, in this project we raise the question: How to develop an efficient regional food chain in the AMA under the influence of land competition?

In our spatial vision we picture the AMA as the ‚Food Connoisseur’, a specialist in the field of food. A region as a frontrunner in innovations, showcasing alternative, high-tech solutions and sustainable cultivation through different scales and environments.

Team work (4)

Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, Netherlands

3 months (2018)

Multiscalar

(From neighbourhood scale design to regional strategy)

Academic studio project

Spatial vision

Overlapping the spatial vision for both land and food sector flows, a hybrid transition zone is formed linking main economic nodes across the AMA.

Urban area

Peri-urban area

Urban development relocation

Urban farmming area

Floating farming area

Grazing land

Cropland

Green house area

Nature concervation

Food hub

Urban-rural flows

Regional flows

Centipede

Farmers market/ Retail

Vegetable

Aquaponics

Greenhouses

Densification

Meet me in Sendling

/ Transforming an abandoned parking lot into a mixed use neighbourhood

Mixed use development // Pedestrian-oriented design // Biodiversity garden

Obersendling, one of the southern neighbourhoods of Munich is an emerging area of the city. In the very middle of Sendling, surrounded by apartment houses and office buildings, an underused parking lot occupies 25.000 m2: it is a particularly intesting plot for many developers. Our student team of two architects and two landscape architects got the task to come up with a design which is not only integrated in the current urban landscape, but points beyond and sets forward a vision for the greater neighbourhood as well.

Team work (4)

Munich, Germany

3 months (2016)

Urban block

Academic studio project

Concrete surface

Lawn

Extensive garden

Block pavement

Street furniture

(chair, bench)

Tree

Entrance

Underground parking garage

Outdoor lighting

Waterflow, rainwater drain

Pavilion/shed

Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

Hofmannstraße

Gmunderstraße

Baierbrunnerstraße

Besides bringing together the people who live here, we also wanted to attract and invite the passer-by to take a walk on the main square or have a drink in one of the cafés after work.

We envisioned a neighbourhood which can offer a diverse range of activities and when someone thinks about the ideal meeting-point - let it be a business lunch or just catching up with a friend - this area will come to their mind in the first place.

Technical drawings

/ Detailed designs of a pergola and pedestrian bridge for an urban park

The following technical drawings are results of a one week intensive workshop. After the analysis of possible structural solutions and materials, a wooden pergola and pedestrian bridge were proposed for an urban park setting. The design included detailed structural solutions (e.g. beam-to-column connection) and material choices (e.g. red pine).

Wooden pergola

Structural details

Please feel free to contact me for further information!

Phone: +36 20 237 4726

LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2lCl18L

E-mail: hegyidora94@gmail.com

Dóra Hegyi